01-21-2015, 04:04 PM
Out of interest Tanner, what does your Golden Dawn friend say about the linage? I have researched it and it all seems rather dubious to say the best. I don't think any order exists today that can trace itself directly back to the Golden Dawn but rather through groups of offshoots. Most orders seem to make the claim of coming in touch with secret Chiefs in Europe or even through the inner planes as giving them some type of authority as a H.O.G.D order and a Rosicrucian second order.
Even the founding of the original Golden Dawn is questionable from my limited research it seems highly likely it was an offshoot of early Rosicrucian Societies in Britain who in turn based there teachings from Earlier Societies such as the Golden and Rosy Cross in Germany. The story about the ciper documented is also a strange one with it being found on a bookshelf to being brought over by Mackenzie an member of the S.R.I.A from an count in Germany/Rosicrucian society.
If i am to be honest, i would have to say the original Golden Dawn was probably nothing more than a collection of occult information picked up over the ages and designed into a learning/teaching system that in itself became quite Credible. Using the resources of Rosicrucian and others of that time such as John Dee, with people like Eliphas Levi being precursor to the founding of the society.
Even the founding of the original Golden Dawn is questionable from my limited research it seems highly likely it was an offshoot of early Rosicrucian Societies in Britain who in turn based there teachings from Earlier Societies such as the Golden and Rosy Cross in Germany. The story about the ciper documented is also a strange one with it being found on a bookshelf to being brought over by Mackenzie an member of the S.R.I.A from an count in Germany/Rosicrucian society.
If i am to be honest, i would have to say the original Golden Dawn was probably nothing more than a collection of occult information picked up over the ages and designed into a learning/teaching system that in itself became quite Credible. Using the resources of Rosicrucian and others of that time such as John Dee, with people like Eliphas Levi being precursor to the founding of the society.